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In this encore presentation, Kim and Amy take stock by dusting off a "New Year’s" episode from 1921, sharing secrets of what makes their writing partnership work and turning to famous women writers — including Nancy Mitford, Isabelle Allende, Anais Nin and more for advice on setting (and more importantly, accomplishing) one's goals.

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Virginia Faulkner had no family ties to that other famous Faulkner, but she is connected to another icon of classic American literature. A young flapper who made an authorial splash with the New York literati (earning comparisons to a young Dorothy Parker), Faulkner later switched gears, devoting the second half of her life to shaping The University of Nebraska Press into a powerhouse publishing institution. Her dedication to scholarship on Willa Cather helped solidify Cather in the pantheon of great American writers. We’re joined for this discussion by neglected books champion Brad Bigelow, whose biography Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts was recently published by Bison Press.
Mentioned in this episode:
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts by Brad Bigelow
2026 Pilgrimage Reading Group
Purchase the Pilgrimage Series by Dorothy Richardson
Neglected Books website
Friends and Romans by Virginia Faulkner
Willa Cather
A House is Not a Home by Polly Adler
University of Nebraska Press
My Hey Day (The “Princess Tulip” Stories) by Virginia Faulkner
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Eugene Meyer
Bernice Slote
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 59 on Gertrude Trevelyon
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 116 on Dorothy Richardson
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Before penning the lyrics to “America the Beautiful,” Katharine Lee Bates shone a spotlight on the invisible (and not so invisible) labor tackled by an unsung Christmas heroine, Mrs. Claus. Bates’s 1888 poem “Goody Claus on a Sleigh Ride” imagines Santa’s spouse setting the record straight about who really does most of the work in preparation for Christmas. In this holiday episode, Amy confesses her own cynical feelings about the Yuletide season and reads this humorous poem with its surprisingly satirical and feminist bent. Listeners who tune in will also receive a special “Lost Ladies of Lit” holiday freebie!
Mentioned in this episode:
“Goody Claus on a Sleigh Ride” by Katharine Lee Bates
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 237 on Katharine Lee Bates

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Dark and disturbing, yet strangely redemptive, Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist masterpiece Nightwood left even its greatest champion, T.S. Eliot, a bit bewildered. Guest Margaret Vandenburg, an expert in modernism, post-modernism and gender studies, joins us to illuminate Barnes’s tumultuous life and help us decipher her "ultimate breakup novel,” a work that casts its spell by turning the world upside down in subversive defiance of fascism.
Mentioned in this episode:
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Craze by Margaret Vandenburg
An American in Paris by Margaret Vandenburg
Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes by Jon Macy
The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes by Phillip Herring
New York by Djuna Barnes (collected journalism)
The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems by Djuna Barnes
Ladies Almanac by Djuna Barnes
“The Antiphon” by Djuna Barnes
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 266 on Radclyffe Hall
Zadel Barnes
Barnes’s 1922
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Likened to a fresh Yorkshire breeze, Malachi Whitaker’s year-in-the-life memoir And So Did I, published in 1939, is a quirky spirit-quest juxtaposing wry humor and contemplative observations amidst the impending threat of global conflict. Valerie Waterhouse, a PhD researcher and executor of Whitaker’s literary estate, joins us to discuss the author’s life and work, as well as her own quest to keep Whitaker’s legacy alive, including securing a commemorative blue plaque for her birthplace and writing a forthcoming biography.
Mentioned in this episode:
And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker
The Journey Home and Other Stories by Malachi Whitker
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories edited by A.S. Byatt
“Landlord of the Crystal Fountain” by Malachi Whitaker
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Stevie Smith
Elizabeth Bowen
Kathleen Raine
Gay Taylor
“What I Believe” by E.M. Forster
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 3 on E.M. Delafield
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 166 on Alba de Céspedes

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